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Richie Pope
@richiepope.bsky.social
cartoonist + illustrator + storyboard artist + character designer. sometimes i post
https://linktr.ee/richiepope
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I'm big tabling again (for a little bit). Come get some nice printed material, all made by me.

• 10/24-10/26 @lightboxexpo.com with @nicole-ham.bsky.social

• 12/13-12/24 @comicartsla.bsky.social
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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If you’ve ever taken a zine from any of our tabling events then you NEED to give a shit about Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada, aka Des Revol.

They are being charged for simply having a box of zines. If you write, print, or simply read zines, WRITE TO DES.

theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
the cul-de-sac blight of green bean casserole should've never been at the table
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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‘Angoulême comics festival in crisis as creators and publishers declare boycott’

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Angoulême comics festival in crisis as creators and publishers declare boycott
French government withdraws funding after claims of toxic management and dismissal of staff member who lodged rape complaint
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
-my mom
-FDT from YG & Nipsey Hussle. funniest way to start a hater verse is "I like white folks but I don't like you"
Who you calling first when it happens? What song you dancing to?
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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When the federal immigration raids ramped up in L.A. and protesters took to the streets in June, Chan decided to make a statement the only way he knew how: By printing thousands of protest signs and distributing them for free.

The full story: lataco.com/prints-again...

By Marina Watanabe
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Why am I so against generative AI in games?

Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
the richest people in the world talk about the disruptive tech for people like it's an opinion. it is extreme tech and they are force-feeding it to us while telling us to shut up. we can never be extreme enough about it
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
rainy day in LA is the perfect time for hot food and citybuilders

Frostpunk: good, if a littler overwhelming for beginners

Frostpunk 2: a good flip of the previous concept (and much more beginner friendly)

Anno 117: Pax Romana is next
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
we are living in a nonsense era because there is simply too much of it
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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You can listen to him lay this all out here
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
check out this wonderful weird show I helped make!
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Thinking about William Blake's lovingly detailed illustrations of Satan's Ripped Bod And Ass
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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this morning i learned that a variety reporter thought “They not like us” meant “They don’t like us” this entire time.

i’ve been sitting in silence since then.
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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half of it is war. war is legitimized taking. war is how you colonize without undermining the authority of property and ownership. the model it all comes from is dictating the guidelines of who can take and who can be taken from. when you don't see yourself up there, that is explicitly the point
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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half of it is slavery. the model it all comes from is white men know how to run things, and all mistakes come from the servant class being unable to realize the vision. it's colonialism, it's chattel slavery, it's deskilled labor, it's the auteur. property as exclusion, power as the right to exclude
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I'm in this! incredible collection of work in one space
Come see our show Anatomic: A Figure Drawing Show at Heavy Manners Library Opening today 7-10pm! Salon style floor to ceiling art from 16 artists.
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Dems have spent my whole life trying to stop anyone with these politics and this message from getting anywhere because they knew what it would do for public morale and political engagement. Their job was to suppress both.
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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What we live in now is a demented cult exalting the right of a tiny handful of people to immiserate the rest of humanity for no real reason. It will end. It will end so totally that one day it will be nothing but a footnote in history books.
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM